# 蝸

| 蝸 | U+8778, &#34680; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8778 |
| ← 蝷 [U+8777] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蝹 → [U+8779] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蝸 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月月口 (LIBBR), four-corner 5712$_7$, composition ⿰虫咼)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1091, character 29
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33338
* Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2862, character 14
* Unihan data for U+8778

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 碢 | *l'oːl |
| 腡 | *ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl |
| 過 | *kloːl, *kloːls |
| 渦 | *kloːl, *qloːl |
| 鍋 | *kloːl |
| 楇 | *kloːl, *ɡloːls |
| 瘑 | *kloːl |
| 緺 | *koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 堝 | *kloːl |
| 濄 | *kloːl, *qloːl |
| 鐹 | *kloːlʔ, *kloːls |
| 薖 | *kʰloːl |
| 簻 | *kʰloːl, *kr'oːl |
| 禍 | *ɡloːlʔ |
| 窩 | *qloːl |
| 萵 | *qloːl |
| 檛 | *kr'oːl |
| 膼 | *kr'oːl |
| 蝸 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 媧 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 騧 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl |
| 冎 | *kroːlʔ |
| 剮 | *kroːlʔ |
| 諣 | *qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls |
| 歄 | *kʷroːl |
| 咼 | *kʰʷroːl |
| 喎 | *kʰʷroːl |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 螺 (OC *roːl, “aquatic snail”).
Perhaps related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *kloʔ (“snail, shellfish”) (Schuessler, 2007).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wō, guā
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ, ㄍㄨㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): waa$^1$ / wo$^1$ / gwaa$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o / o͘
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wō
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wo
*** Wade–Giles: wo$^1$
*** Yale: wō
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
*** Palladius: во (vo)
*** Sinological IPA : /wɔ⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: guā
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gua
*** Wade–Giles: kua$^1$
*** Yale: gwā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gua
*** Palladius: гуа (gua)
*** Sinological IPA : /ku̯ä⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: waa$^1$ / wo$^1$ / gwaa$^1$
*** Yale: wā / wō / gwā
*** Cantonese Pinyin: waa$^1$ / wo$^1$ / gwaa$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wa$^1$ / wo$^1$ / gua$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /waː⁵⁵/, /wɔː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
*** Tâi-lô: o
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oy
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
*** Tâi-lô: oo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: of
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
* Middle Chinese: kwea, kwae
Rime :
| Character | 蝸 | 蝸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 佳 (32) | 麻 (99) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | II | II |
| Fanqie | 古娃切 | 古華切 |
| Baxter | kwea | kwae |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kˠuɛ/ | /kˠua/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷᵚæ/ | /kʷᵚa/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuæi/ | /kua/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwaɨj/ | /kwaɨ/ |
| Li Rong | /kuɛ/ | /kua/ |
| Wang Li | /kwai/ | /kwa/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kwai/ | /kwa/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guā | guā |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gwaai$^1$ | gwaa$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*k.rˤoj/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kroːl/, /*kʷroːl/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蝸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | wō |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kwæ › |
| Old Chinese | /*k.rˁoj/ (dialect: *k.rˁ- > *kˁr-) |
| English | snail |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蝸 | 蝸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 4384 | 4394 |
| Phonetic component | 冎 | 冎 |
| Rime group | 歌 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 瓜 | |
| Old Chinese | /*kroːl/ | /*kʷroːl/ |

### Definitions

蝸
* terrestrial snail

### Compounds

* 人工蝸牛 / 人工蜗牛
* 無殼蝸牛 / 无壳蜗牛 (wúké-wōniú)
* 耳蝸 / 耳蜗 (ěrwō)
* 蝸利蠅名 / 蜗利蝇名
* 蝸名蠅利 / 蜗名蝇利
* 蝸居 / 蜗居 (wōjū)
* 蝸居蟻垤 / 蜗居蚁垤
* 蝸廬 / 蜗庐
* 蝸步難移 / 蜗步难移
* 蝸步龜移 / 蜗步龟移 (wōbùguīyí)
* 蝸牛 / 蜗牛 (wōniú)
* 蝸窄 / 蜗窄
* 蝸篆 / 蜗篆
* 蝸舍 / 蜗舍
* 蝸螺 / 蜗螺
* 蝸行 / 蜗行
* 蝸角 / 蜗角
* 蝸角之爭 / 蜗角之争 (wōjiǎozhīzhēng)
* 蝸角虛名 / 蜗角虚名
* 蝸角蠅頭 / 蜗角蝇头
* 蝸輪 / 蜗轮
* 蝸髫 / 蜗髫
* 蠅利蝸名 / 蝇利蜗名
* 蠅名蝸利 / 蝇名蜗利
* 蠅頭蝸角 / 蝇头蜗角

### See also

* 螺 (“aquatic snail”)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* snail

#### Readings

* Go-on: け (ke)
* Kan-on: か (ka)
* Kun: かたつむり (katatsumuri, 蝸)

#### Compounds

* 蝸角(かかく) (kakaku)
* 蝸牛(かぎゅう) (kagyū): snail; cochlea
* 蝸舎(かしゃ) (kasha)
* 蝸牛(かたつむり) (katatsumuri), 蝸牛(でんでんむし) (dendenmushi): snail
* 蝸廬(かろ) (karo)
* 蝸螺(にな) (nina)

## Korean
### Hanja

蝸 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)
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#### Compounds

* 와우 (蝸牛, wau, “snail”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

蝸: Hán Nôm readings: oa
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